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Re: Iris carts on sale at Office Depot this week
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Thu, 8 Aug 2002 19:25:31 GMT
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Some of the Iris carts (especially the Lego primary colored ones from Target)
have slots in the frame, and tabs are cast into the back of the frame. You snap
these tabs out of the frame, and lock 2 stacks together through the slots.
The Iris carts I got from Costco did have the slots cast in the frame, but they
didn't mold tabs into the frame. I called up Iris and requested tabs, told them
I needed at least 60 for the # of carts I had, and got an envelope in the mail a
week later with 63 tabs in it. Now all of my stacks are locked together. I also
put stacks back-to-back and used packing tape to strap them together, now I have
a nice and stable stack in my kitchen/dining room.
When I finally buy a house, I'll be lining the walls of one room, and at that
point, I'm going to run some screws into the studs of the wall, and build a cable
setup to latch to the top of the stacks, to make sure they can't tip over, but
will still be able to unlatch them if I have to move the stacks.
I checked the ones at OD out yesterday, and they aren't as deep as the ones I am
currently using. They are the same width, but shorter in depth, so they won't
interlock with the ones from Costco, so I'm passing on them.
The best deal, if you don't care what frame color you get, is from Costco. It's
a TALL stack for less than $20 last time I checked. It's a stack of 2 large
drawers, 3 medium, and 3 small, from what I can remember. Med drawers are 1.5
times the height of the small, large are 2x the small.
Frank Filz wrote:
> Tom Stangl wrote:
> >
> > Office Depot is listing the 4-drawer carts with metallic blue or metallic
> > lavender frames this week for 2 for $30. This is instore only, I can't
> > find them online.
> >
> > blue - 318-098
> > lavender - 318-065
> >
> > I own the equivalent of 50+ of these (I've bought various Iris carts in
> > 4/6/7/9-drawer sizes from OD, Costco, etc), they are really nice for
> > storing large Lego collections (and even small, just stack Plano boxes in
> > the drawers).
> >
> > I've only ever seen these color frames at OD, and color-coding the frames
> > makes it REALLY easy to know what stack to head for when you have a wall
> > full of them. So far I have tons of white frames, tons of black, tons of
> > clear (frames are the same translucent plastic as the drawers), a few blue
> > (from the Lego primary colored ones at Target), and now I'll be adding some
> > metallic lavender and metallic blue ones to the mix ;-)
> >
> > Once I finally move and buy a house, I should be able to get my collection
> > sorted into stacks and colorcoding them by Iris frame color nicely ;-)
>
> I like the Iris carts also, unfortunately, in tall columns they're
> awfully wobbly. More an more I'm convinced the best way to go for
> storage is to custom build shelving, though the Iris cart drawers could
> be used in custom built shelving.
>
> What would be cool is if they had some double or triple wide units,
> which could stack on top of 2 or 3 regular units so that I could tie
> several columns together. I think that would reduce the wobbliness,
> though what is really needed is cross bracing. I guess I could add cross
> bracing.
>
> Frank
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